給食だより

【初午献立】

赤飯（ごま塩）　牛乳　ハムカツ

しもつかれ　すまし汁　とちおとめゼリー

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Today is a kind of interesting menu.  Shimotsu curry, ham katsu, and sekihan!  Lots of good stuff today.  Kyushoku shimotsu curry is actually pretty tame and is quite good.  I love sekihan and it was super good.  The sesame seed salt is so delicious and it is very filling.  The ham katsu was also super crunchy and perfectly fried.  It tasted wonderful and was great.  We also got a nice seaweed soup with tofu and Naruto in it.  It was good.  Lastly was today’s dessert, the tochioteme jelly.  It was absolutely fantastic and had cream on the bottom too.  Great lunch today!

ミルクパン　とちおとめジャム　牛乳

ハンバーグきのこソース　ほうれん草ソテー　野菜スープ

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Today is a great lunch!  Hamburg steak and spinach sautee with veggies soup on the side.  The spinache was excellent and had a touch of butter which really made it extra yummy.  I used some of my bread to make a sandwich with the hamburg and it was amazing.  The gravy with mushrooms was really good.  Todays soup had a light flavor from all the vegetables and was good.  I liked all the cabbage,  Last I used some of my bread to eat a little jam sandwich and it was a quite lovely finish to the meal.  I was quite full and happy today and I needed it!  Thank you!

【ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　青ヒラスの照り焼き

五目ひじき　キムチ入りとん汁

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Today’s lunch is a mix of fish, hijiki, and kimchi soup.  I don’t really like today’s fish very much so I usually try to eat it quickly.  It has a kind of fatty oily taste to me.  Today’s real VIP is the kimchi soup.  Hot and delicious and filled with plenty of vegetables and kimchi flavor.  Nice lunch today!

ごはん　牛乳　ポークシューマイ

ハムとニラの和え物　八宝菜

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Back for another week of yummy lunches. This week kicks off with the delicious happosai. Today’s salad was great and had a nice dressing which went well with the ham. It was juicy too. The happosai has a very strong mix of flavors and the squid always stands out to me, but it is filled with many yummy veggies and meats. It’s great with rice too. The shumai were yummy as well and had a nice meaty and oniony flavor. A lovely lunch today and one that filled me up quite nicely.

【ＪＡさんからいちごの無償提供】

ミルクパン　牛乳　メンチカツ

ツナサラダ　ポトフ　いちご

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Friday! Yay!  Today we have a manchi katsu, potof, tuna salad, and a pair of strawberries!  The tuna salad was excellent as always with a nice crunchy bite and a delicious bright dressing mixed with the yummy tuna.  I made a menchi katsu sandwich and it was amazing.  The katsu today was super duper crunchy and the insides were hot, meaty, and had a nice onion flavor.  The potof was tasty and had a nice light flavor which complimented the bread and katsu.  Today’s strawberries were super sweet and delicious.  Some of the best I have had in a while!  And in school lunch too!  Yummy!

【節分献立】

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのしょうが煮

白菜のおひたし　里いもと大根のそぼろ煮　福豆

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Today is Setsubun, or ‘Throwing Beans Day’. A traditional change in the season from the winter months headed into spring where we throw beans and banish demons from our homes and lives!  Today’s salad was packed with flavor from the bonito and it was smokey and juicy.  A kind of odd combination, but delicious.  The daikon stew was pretty good!  The earthy and slightly bitter daikon flavor was calmed down by the flavors and other veggies and was quite delicious.  Today’s real MVP was the fish though.  It was perfectly cooked and super flavorful.  The ginger flavor was excellent and went perfectly with rice.  This is one of the best fish we get in school lunch and it was great today.  Last, as a final snack, the lucky bean assortment.  It is a little snack pack with kakipeas, lucky beans, and crunchy little fish and such with a little bit of a sweet coating.  It was alright.  A nice conclusion to the meal.  Out with the demons and in with the luck!

黒とうパン　牛乳　焼きそば

ハムと大根のサラダ

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Yaki soba and ham daikon salad.  Great menu today.  The ham and daikon salad is great as always and has such a delicious mix of crunchy, sweet, sour, and umami flavors.  It’s so good and wakes my mouth up for the yaki soba party that is coming.  The yaki soba today was quite good and had a good amount of flavor from the sauce.  I got a lot of meat in mine today so I feel lucky.  The kokuto bread was sweet and delicious too.  I mostly enjoyed it at the end of the meal with my milk.  A lovely meal that filled me up!

三色丼（そぼろ・ごま和え）　牛乳

鮭団子汁

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Yeah! Sanshokudon!  And some yummy soup with salmon balls too.  The sanshokudon is absolutely delicious.  The egg/chicken mix is tasty and the greens are tasty and flavorful with a nice juicy sesame flavor.  I just mix it up with the rice and go crazy, I love this.  The soup was simple and delicious with vegetables and those amazing salmon balls.  The salmon gives the soup a different level of depth and the meat is great as well.  After the exciting world school lunch week, it is nice to go back to the classics to remember how good they are.

ごはん　牛乳　あじフライ

五目ひじき　けんちん汁

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January is already at an end.  Only about 2 months left of the school year!  Only two more months of school lunch.  Today we have a wonderful ajifry as well as hijiki.  A tasty classic and it does not disappoint.  The hijiki is good and the aburaage is juicy and filled with flavor.  That and the nice chunks of meat added in alongside the beans makes it a pretty good salad.  We also got a soup as well, kenchin soup.  It has a very light flavor and is filled with lots of veggies and tofu.  It is the cool down menu item after having bites of the powerful ajifry.  The ajifry was super crunchy, fried perfectly, and had a nice fairly gentle fishy flavor and on the inside a soft texture.

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（ドイツ）】

ホットドッグ（コッペパン・ソーセージ・ケチャップ＆マスタード・

ザワークラウト）　牛乳　ポテトシチュー

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The last day of world lunch week.  Today is Germany.  We get a hot dog with sauerkraut-style cabbage and a potato stew.  I tried the sauerkraut first since I had a talk about it with the nutritionist.  It was very good and reminded me of the momizuke.  The hotdog itself was delicious and great with a little ketchup and mustard along with the kraut.  The real superstar of the menu today though is this potato soup.  Seriously all kyushoku stew is delicious and I will stand by that claim, but today was a masterpiece.  The depth of flavor is wonderful and the vegetables and ingredients were prefect. An amazing lunch and a perfect meal to conclude the week!  Thank you!

【全国学校給食週間：日本で給食が始まった頃の献立】

【地産地消献立：野口菜】

ごはん　牛乳　焼き鮭　白菜のもみづけ

野口菜のみそ汁　味のり

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I just realized today that this week is ‘World Menu Week’ for school lunches. That makes sense. Today’s lunch is an homage to what school lunch was like when Japan first began the school lunch program. A simple meal of momizuke, grilled fish, and miso soup with flavored seaweed on the side. The momizuke was delicious, crunchy, and fresh! The soup was quite flavorful and tasty. The aburaage was juicy and salty. The nori was a nice addition to the rice as well adding some sweetness. I also really enjoyed the salmon as well. It went great with the rice and was quite tasty. Wonderful meal today. Thank you!

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（インド）】

ナン　牛乳　ダールカレー（豆のカレー）

カリフラワーサラダ

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Another new menu today!  Daal (beans) curry and naan bread with a cauliflower salad.  The salad was excellent.  Reminding me of the flowering veggie salad, but this has cheese and some tunafish in it as well.  Very good.  The curry was great as well.  When Indian style curry comes up in kyushoku it has a different base flavor and is a nice change of pace.  The spiciness was decent and it had plenty of beans as well which were quite enjoyable.  I thought the naan was ok.  An excellent lunch and both the salad and curry were awesome!  A meal I would love to eat again!

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（台湾）】

ルーロー飯（ごはん・肉そぼろ・ゆで野菜）　牛乳

大根スープ　給食週間デザート（ミルクプリン）

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Another rare and interesting menu item today! Ruurohann. An interesting dish of ground meat and stewed vegetables. Today’s daikon soup was quite good and had a fair amount of flavor and delicious texture from the abura age as well. The ruuroohan was amazing and the meat and bamboo shoots were delicious and had a sweetness, but also another flavor I couldn’t catch, but reminded me of fish like squid. Super delicious and extremely easy to eat and great with rice as well. I wanted to keep eating and before I knew it I had finished it all! I really hope that we can get a chance to eat it again soon. Lastly, today’s dessert was milk pudding, which was sweet and tasty. Really a nice and creamy dessert to finish the meal. I am very full and very happy! Thank you!

【全国学校給食週間：世界の料理（ハワイ）】

ロコモコ丼（ごはん・ハンバーグ・目玉焼き）

牛乳　野菜スープ

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Interesting and new menu item today!  The Locomoko!  This is a famous dish in Hawaii.  It is a fried egg on a hamburg steak on some rice.  Seeing it in school lunch is quite exciting!  I tried the soup first and it is a simple cabbage and carrot soup with a few little bits of pork sprinkled in to add a bit of flavor to the broth.  Not bad.  The lokomoko sauce was actually pretty good too.  I tasted a mix of ketchup and katsu sauce.  The lokomoko itself was actually really good.  I wanted a bit more sauce, and of course it would be way better if it was hot, but it was good!  The hamburg was pretty meaty and big and the egg was cooked in a perfect circle.  How do they do that?  Today’s lunch was new, and interesting, and unique.  I am happy to try a different menu and was really surprised today which was exciting and fun.  I look forward to more new menu items!  Thank you!  I would say the lokomoko was a success today.

ミルクパン　チョコパテ　牛乳

スパゲッティナポリタン　コールスローサラダ

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Its snowing today!  Its lovely outside, but very cold too.  Today’s lunch is spaghetti and cole slaw with bread and chocolate pate on the side.  The cole slaw was crunchy and sweet from the mayo.  The spaghetti was hot and delicious, and had a sweet flavor as well, but I tasted a little smokiness too maybe.  Tough to say, but it is still very good.  The pate was tremendous and super chocolately and delicious.  Perfect with milk and the bread, I made a little chocolate bread kind of snack and enjoyed it at the end of my meal.  Very tasty and a lovely end of the week. Thank you!

ごはん　牛乳　ぶた肉と野菜のしょうがいため

えび団子スープ

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Today’s menu is a delicious pork and veggie stir fry with shrimp ball soup on the side.  The stir fry was excellent, flavorful from the ginger, and filling.  Great with rice.  The soup itself had a very light flavor, but a nice texture from the spring noodles.  The shrimp balls were amazing and each bite was an explosion of shrimpy goodness.  Nice lunch today.

【ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのおかか煮

五目きんぴら　とん汁

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Today’s menu is the ‘Goes great with rice’ menu day.  Fish, kinpira, and tonjiru.  A classic Japanese menu.  The kinpira is crunchy and sweet.  It also has a little bit of an interesting smokey and earthy flavor as well from the sauce and gobo I think which was nice.  The tonjiru is hot and delicious and filled with plenty of veggies and tofu alongside the pork.  Last was today’s main dish, the iwashi okakani, or Japanese Pilchard stewed in Bonito Sauce.  It is amazing and has a great flavor that is perfect with rice.  I felt like I could eat so much rice today thanks to the delicious dishes.

ごはん　牛乳　あげぎょうざ

ハムとニラの和え物　マーボー豆腐

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Mabo dofu day. Today is mabo day with delicious gyoza and a yummy salad.  The salad was a crunchy and delicious ham and sesame flavored mix of sprouts and greens which was a tasty and refreshing start to the meal.  Today’s fried gyoza were awesome and nice and crunchy.  The reminded me almost like crunchy fried eggrolls.  The flavor was delicious.  Today’s mabo was nice and hot and filled with lots of vegetables chopping very finely to mix well with the mincemeat and allow the texture of the tofu to stand out.  Overall a nice lunch and the agegyoza were outstanding!

ごはん　牛乳　厚焼卵

小松菜のおひたし　筑前煮

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The first full week back to school after the winter vacation and today’s lunch is komatsuna salad with tamagoyaki and chikuzenni, a dish of boiled veggies and konyaku.  Very Japanese, but very yummy.  The salad is a crunchy and mushy mixture with very strong bonito flavor.  The smokiness of the bonito and nice touch from the sesame seeds is a refreshing start to the meal.  The egg is sweet almost sweet enough to be considered a dessert, and is a nice contrast to the salty and savory flavors from the salad and the stew.  The chikuzenni is a hearty collection of root vegetables stewed in a nice sauce, which has some sweetness to it, but takes up those earthy flavors, which help to chew through the vegetables.  The bamboo shoots and daikon radish are my favorite.  This is a dish that I always forget that I like because without flashes of color from the carrots or green beans it’s mostly brown and beige.  But despite that, each time I take my first bite I remember how delicious it is.  It is a lovely meal and a solid start to what will be a great week of kyushoku.

はちみつパン　牛乳　チキンのチーズ焼き

グリーンサラダ　ミネストローネスープ

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Minestrone, flower veggie salad, and baked chicken!  Excellent end to the week today.  The salad was juicy, delicious, and had such wonderful flavors.  An absolute treat and one of the best kyushoku salads.  The soup was great today as well.  Nice tomato flavor, but also plenty of seasoning as well giving it a bit more kick than usual.  I think I even tasted a little garlic which is fantastic.  The baked chicken was amazing and cooked perfectly.  I made a sandwich with the sweet honey bread and it was a nice enough match.  Hearty and filling alongside the soup.  Wonderful meal!

ごはん　牛乳　納豆

いそ香り和え　肉じゃが

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Natto and Nikujaga!  A day of great highs and great lows for me.  The natto wasn’t too bad today, but I think that the salad on natto day is different than usual.  I recall that eating the salad cleaned out my mouth quickly, but today’s salad was more spinach based and didn’t have a strong dressing.  It did have a bit of bonito flavor though which was nice.  Today’s nikujaga was delicious as always.  I feel like I got a lot of potatoes today.  The stew broth that it comes in is sweet and delicious and the flavor of the onions really makes it so good.  Nice meal today!

きなこあげパン　牛乳　ハムと大根のサラダ

白菜のクリーム煮

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Stew, Salad, and Agepan!  The daikon and ham salad was crunchy and delicious.  The stew was amazing!  Great creamy flavor and lots of nice vegetables as well.  The potatoes were great.  The Kinako agepan was delicious and tasted a little bit like peanut butter.  It was a nice dessert after the meal and great with milk.  If I didn’t have milk I might have been in trouble!  Delicious and hearty stew today!  Thank you!

【始業式】

ハヤシライス　牛乳　海そうサラダ

みかんゼリー

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Happy New Year! It’s the year of the tiger and today is the first day at school with school lunch and the start of the 3rd semester. Hayashi rice and seaweed salad with a mikan jelly dessert. Can’t ask for a more solid start than that! The salad was slippery and crunchy, with a nice tangy and slightly sweet flavor from the dressing and natural seaweed flavor. The hayashi rice was very tasty! The tomato flavor was nice and the vegetables were hot and delicious. In particular the mushrooms and green peas were delicious and added nice texture. The mikan jelly was a nice little treat afterwards and refreshed my mouth quite nicely. Lovely meal and now I am full and ready for the rest of the day, no, the rest of the semester! Thank you and let’s have a great 2022!

【終業式・クリスマス献立】

バターロール　牛乳　もみの木ハンバーグ

イタリアンサラダ　オニオンスープ

クリスマスデザート

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Christmas eve and the day of the closing ceremony for the second semester.  A SUPER Christmas themed lunch today.  Hamburg shaped like Christmas Trees, star cheese in the salad and star noodles in the soup as well as cute snowman Naruto too. The salad is one of the most delicious ones and the little cheese stars add such a great level of depth to it.  The colorful greens whites and reds also give it a real nice holiday vibe.  The soup is delicious and so cute.  I used the bread roll and made it into buns so I could eat a hamburg tree sandwich..  It was delicious.  There was also a super tasty dessert.  It was a delicious and creamy and sweet strawberry jelly and pudding with some whipped cream on top.  A super duper festive and delicious lunch to kick off the winter vacation for the students!

ごはん　牛乳　にらまんじゅう

白菜おひたし　キムチ入りとん汁

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Nice menu today!  It is an interesting and delicious blend on Asian recipies.  The salad was tasty and the katsuo boshi was excellent.  The kimchi soup was absolutely delicious with a yummy spice level and lots of hearty vegetables.  The nira manju as well was super good and the strong nira flavor was delicious.  It was meatier than I expected and a true treat.  Wonderful lunch today!

【冬至献立】

米粉パン　牛乳　スペイン風オムレツ

ツナサラダ　かぼちゃシチュー

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Yes!  Today is a delicious pumpkin stew.  The tuna salad was delicious and surprisingly hearty.  I like this salad a lot.  The omelet was tasty as well.  I liked the potatoes and onions.  Today’s main event is the wonderful pumpkin stew and it was magnificent.  The pumpkin flavor was so strong and the color along could tell you how much pumpkin was used in it.  It I delicious and I missed having yummy stew with lunch.  Wonderful meal today!

ビビンバ　牛乳　春雨スープ

アセロラゼリー

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Delicious bibinba today!  The veggies are so tasty and the meat so flavorful.  It is the perfect mixture!  It is so great with rice as well.  The harusame soup is tasty and hot and nice with the bibinba too.  Last there was a sweet and cold acerora jelly which was a perfect finish to the meal.

ごはん　牛乳　いわしのごまみそ煮

もみづけ　ざくざく煮（福島県の郷土料理）

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Today is an all Japanese lunch.  The momiduke was nice and crunchy with a light sesame flavor.  The zakuzakuni was quite delicious and everything was cut into small chunks or cubes.  I like when my food comes in cubes.  This soup reminded me of oden.  The fish, iwashi, was amazing.  This is one of my favorite fish that comes in school lunch and I love the sesame and miso sauce that comes with it.  So wonderful.

ホットドッグ　牛乳　チャンポンメン

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Champon and hotdog day.  The champon is hot and delicious and filled with tons of ingredients.  I like the shrimp and Naruto, as well as how juicy and soft the noodles are.  Its really good.  The hotdog is pretty good and nice and smokey.  The cabbage and ketchup help balance the dryness of the bread and make a nice little meal.  Nice lunch today!

【地産地消献立：白菜】

ごはん　牛乳　納豆

小松菜のごま和え　すき焼き風煮

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Sukiyaki and Natto day.  I eat my natto quickly and then proceed to the salad!  The salad was fresh, crunchy, and tasted sweet as well from the sesame.  It was a great palate cleanser after the natto and my mouth wasn’t sticky at all.  The sukiyaki today was amazing.  So many noodles and that sweet and savory broth is so delicious.  The tofu is slightly cooked and has a nice texture and the carrots and cabbage were great as well.  The meat was filling and tasty.  Truly a rollercoaster of emotion with today’s lunch, but it is ultimately a delicious one despite the natto.

【ごはん献立の日】

ごはん　牛乳　さばの味勝焼き

五目ひじき　どさんこ汁

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Dosanko soup, fish, and hijiki today.  A Japanese meal.  The hijiki was good and a little sweet.  I enjoyed it.  The saba with miso was alright.  I don’t really like this fish and sauce combination very much.  Today’s main dish for me was the dosanko soup and it was amazing.  The buttery flavor of the broth and the delicious vegetables and pork make it super hearty and enjoyable.  I like it very much.  Nice lunch today!  Thank you!

ポークカレーライス　牛乳　こんにゃくサラダ　みかん

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Curry and rice day!  The seaweed salad that comes on most curry days is the same as usual.  I don’t really like the texture very much, but it tastes quite good.  The curry was excellent.  Good spice level today and I was surprised by how big the potatoes were.  Maybe they cut them larger or added them to the stew later because they were really big and still had fairly sharp edges!  It was great.  And a wonderful juicy sweet mikan to conclude the meal.  Perfect lunch as the weather starts to get really cold.

ごはん　牛乳　とりのからあげ

キャベツの塩こぶ和え　さつま汁

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Karaage and sweet potato soup day!  A real nice lunch.  The salad was a simple cabbage affair with a nice sharp dressing with salty kobu which is really tasty.  The soup is hot and warm, tasting great, and the sweet potatoes add such a nice flavor and smooth texture to it.  Today’s chicken doesn’t have a special flavor like it has recently, but is just classic Japanese karaage.  It tastes great!  I enjoy having it with my rice and it was a great meal overall.  I am full and feel great.  Thank you!

はちみつパン　牛乳　スパゲッティミートソース

ビーンズサラダ　みかんゼリー

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Spaghetti and bean salad today with a nice mikan jelly and honey bread.  A nice menu that looks great.  The bean salad is amazing and so colorful and delicious.  It is crunchy and has lots of nice textures as well and with the dressing it has a nice unified flavor in addition to all the varied tastes from reach bean and the broccoli.  Today’s meat pasta is amazing and today’s is some of the best I have had from school lunch in a while.  The flavors are there and there is a bit more complexity besides a simple tomato and meat sauce.  The peas add a nice little extra bit of texture and I think there must be some kind of cheese or other flavor in there which takes it above and beyond.  Absolutely wonderful today.

三色丼　牛乳　沢煮椀

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Sanshokudon! One of the tightest and most delicious meals around. If all kyushoku menus would battle against eachother in a tournament, I believe that sanshokudon deserves to be in the top 10 for sure, if not the top 5. Today’s soup, sawaniwan has a unique and delicious flavor. Gobo and daikon give it a nice earthy base flavor and the carrots and daikon being cut so thinly and in strips give it an interesting texture as well. The sanshokudon is delicious as ever with wonderful spinach with sesame, and the delicious chicken and egg mixture. Delicious!

バターロール　牛乳　肉団子

花野菜サラダ　ポトフ

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Today is a nice menu with meatballs, salad, and soup with bread on the side.  The flowing veggie salad was excellent and it is one of the best for both its perfect ability to soak up the dressing and still be crunchy, and the fact that the dressing is so good too.  I really like this salad.  I love to use the bread to make a meatball sandwich with the Swedish style meatballs.  The potof is quite good and filled with tons of veggies and the little sausage slices are wonderful as well. A simple but enjoyable light flavor is nice and calms down the pallet after the bright dressing from the salad or the stronger flavors from the meatballs.  The meatball sandwich itself was delicious and the meatballs are done very well.  Such a good flavor. Amazing meal today!

ごはん　牛乳　あじフライ（ソース）

切り干し大根の煮つけ　なめこ汁

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Ajify today with nameko soup.  I started out with the stewed kiriboshi daikon which was pretty good.  I don’t like the texture that much, but it is delicious and has an interesting flavor which is sweet and has a kind of earthy saltiness as well.  The soup as well has good flavor, but a texture I don’t care for that much.  It was nice after eating some ajifry to kind of calm down the strong sharp flavor of the sauce.  The ajifry was excellent and crunchy.  Very enjoyable!  A nice lunch today.

スタミナ丼　牛乳　えび団子スープ

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Cold day today!  Perfect timing for some nice hot STAMINA DON!  Kyushoku staminadon is super delicious and packed with tons of pork, onions, carrots, and other veggies.  It has such a delicious flavor and is juicy and hot.  One of the most solid lunch choices you can ask for.  Also, we got a lovely shrimp ball soup as well.  I really enjoy the light flavor compared to the powerful flavors of the stamina don.  The noodles in the soup are extremely enjoyable and the shrimp balls taste delicious and nice.  Perfect meal for a cold dreary day!             

ココアあげパン　牛乳　ハムと大根のサラダ

ポークビーンズ

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An interesting lunch today!  Today we get the ham and daikon salad which is one of the best.  The hame, daikon, cucumber, and dressing go so well together.  A crunchy masterpiece really and it is such a simple dish too.  Besides the salad we have pork and beans today as well.  It’s a hearty soup packed with lots of vegetables and has a nice tomato base.  It’s really good.  Also today is another fantastic treat – agepan with a cocoa sugar topping.  It is basically a donut which nobody will ever complain about.  The cocoa flavor was very clear to me and quite enjoyable.  I save almost all my milk to eat with the agepan making for a yummy dessert to this nice meal.

ごはん　牛乳　えびシューマイ

ハムとニラの和え物　マーボー豆腐

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Mabo dofu day!  The namul with nira was excellent and had a strong sharp flavor.  It has a great crunch and is refreshing.  Today’s mabo was pretty good.  It was nice and hot and the tofu was juicy and enjoyable.  I could taste a little more spice than usual today I think.  Last, the shrimp shumai were good as well with a strong shrimp flavor.  Overall a filling and enjoyable lunch!  Thank you!

黒とうパン　牛乳　焼きそば

ごぼうサラダ

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A new month and a classic school lunch.  Today is Yakisoba.  The gobo salad was sweet and delicious and I love the flavor and crunch of the gobo.  It is wonderful and I like to use some of the sweet bread to clean the bowl of the dressing.  The dressing and the sweet bread actually go together quite well.  The yakisoba was good today as well.  It is filling and had a light flavor today.  Thankful as always for the delicious meal!

ごはん　牛乳　とりのからあげ韓国風

ナムル　春雨スープ

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Excellent korean-style flavors in today’s lunch.  The namul was pretty good, a simple spinach salad with come carrots and bean sprouts with sesame seeds.  A nice and easy start.  The harusame soup was also quite good.  I liked it mostly for its hotness and the yummy noodles, since the flavor was quite light today, but I could taste white pepper which was nice.  Today’s main event of course is the Korean-style karaage.  It was fried perfectly and still crispy despite being cooled down which was amazing.  It actually had a little bit of spice and some nice savory sweet flavors as well.  The sauce was amazing.  A wonderful meal today that filled me up and made me happy to enjoy. Thank you!

ごはん　牛乳　ほっけの塩焼き

白菜のおひたし　とん汁　りんごゼリー

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Back at it again and the first lunch of the week is fish, salad, and soup. The salad is spinach-based with some other veggies tossed in and flavored mostly with delicious smokey bonito. It’s a kyushoku classic and a nice start to the meal. Today’s fish, hokke, is not my favorite. It has a kind of creamy oily texture and the flavor is slightly bitter to me although the nutritionist often tells me that students think it tastes sweet. I ate it quickly with my rice and moved on to the soup which is today’s MVP. It was buttery and filled with delicious vegetables and meat as well. It was flavored quite well and was very enjoyable. Today’s apple jelly was amazing and filled with apple chunks. It had more of a natural texture than jelly making it similar to apple sauce which I love. A fine meal today. Thank you!

はちみつパン　牛乳　スパゲッティナポリタン

ハムと大根のサラダ　ヨーグルト

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Wonderful pasta today.  I have smelled the cooking onions all morning leading up to lunchtime while walking in the halls between classes and it was great.  The daikon, ham, and cucumber salad was excellent.  Great dressing and perfect balance of ingredients as well.  The pasta was not a let down at all and tasted wonderful. The sauce had a light sweetness, but was still salty and savory enough for me.  The little hot dogs were lovely as always.  I use some of the bread for the pasta sauce, but like to save most of it to enjoy with the yogurt and the milk. As a nice little final dessert.

ごはん　牛乳　にらまんじゅう

春雨サラダ　八宝菜

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Chinese menu today with happosai, spring noodle salad, and manju.  The spring noodle salad is quite delicious and tangy with sesame seeds as well.  Strips of ham give some nice flavor as well as the cucumbers, cabbage, and carrots which offer a nice crunch.  Today’s main dish is the happosai, or 8 Treasures Vegetables.  It’s a very interesting naming for a dish, but it has a ton of interesting ingredients which I think are the treasures.  Today’s was tasty and a treasure to enjoy for sure.  Today’s super treasure was the nira manju though.  The strong flavor from the nira and the meat inside the dumpling make for a very delicious treat that was enjoyable.

フィッシュバーガー　牛乳　マカロニのクリーム煮

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A wonderful day for school lunch again.  Creamy macaroni stew and fried fish sandwiches.  Perhaps another reward for the teachers participating in today’s observation lesson?  The fried fish was delicious, crunchy, and had a nice flavor.  The sauce added some tangy flavors to the fishy and meaty goodness.  With the moisture from the boiled cabbage, it’s a nice collection of textures that makes for a yummy dish.  The cream stew was delicious as always.  So hearty and the pasta is quite yummy filled with sauce.  In particular the mushrooms were a nice addition to this adding an interesting texture that was enjoyable.  I feel like the flavor of the cabbage kind of won out over the others and I was hoping for a stronger onion flavor.  It was still an absolute delight and I am very thankful for such a powerful meal before an important lesson this afternoon!  Thank you!

三色丼　牛乳　けんちん汁

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Today the parents came to watch lessons!  With many many people, we also have a meal with many many ingredients.  Sanshokudon!  The kenchin soup was quite good.  I liked how hot and hearty it was, filled with lots of veggies and tofu.  The sanshokudon proper was delicious as always.  The savory egg and chicken with the tasty sweet and sesame spinach as well is a delicious meal great with rice.  Thank you!

県産小麦のコッペパン　とちおとめジャム　牛乳

おろしハンバーグ　かんぴょうサラダ　オニオンスープ

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What a bounty on display today!  Hamburg steaks, delicious onion soup, kanpyou salad, and jam with bread.  The salad was excellent and had a wonderful and delicious creamy sesame dressing.  The onion soup was packed with flavor and had a great texture from the cabbage and the sliced onions.  I use some of the bread as buns for the hamburg and enjoy it like a little sandwich.  Its super good and the oroshi sauce is prefect with the bread.  Such a tasty meal and super filling.  Last the tochiotome jam is sweet and enjoying it on the bread with my milk makes for a nice little dessert to end the meal.  What a wealth of delicious foods today and almost all of them using ingredients from Tochigi!

【地産地消献立：大根】

大根入りカレーライス　牛乳

ほうれん草サラダ　にっこり（なし）

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Today’s menu theme is local daikon radish which is featured in the curry.  I started with the tune and spinach salad which was pretty good!  The tuna was good and the crunch from the corn and cucumber were a nice additional texture.  The curry today was very good as well!  The daikon is a pretty good match and its juiciness allowed me to appreciate the spiciness of the curry a bit more I think.  A lovely meal today.  Thank you.

米粉パン　牛乳　県産ぶた肉コロッケ

海そうサラダ　冬野菜シチュー

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Today is a super excellent menu. The seaweed salad was alright. A little slippery for my liking, but it tasted quite nice and the corn gave it some texture. The pork croquette very delicious and perfectly fried. It had a nice balance of meat to potato in the filling as well which was very enjoyable. The stew today is a winter vegetable cream stew and it was pretty good. It was creamy and hot and had a light flavor, with broccoli having the most prominent flavor among the rest of the vegetables. Great lunch today. Bring on more stew!